you will concert with Dormer the properest means of procuring THE
THINGS ['arms,' erased] I now order him, in the strictest secrecy,
likewise how I could be concealed in case I came to him, and the
safest way of travelling to that country?'


For Mr. Dormer. Same Date. Anvers.

'As you have already offered me by ye Bearer, Mr. Goring, to furnish
me what Arms necessary for my service I hereby desire you to get me
with all ye expedition possible Twenty Thousand Guns, Baionets,
Ammunition proportioned, with four thousand sords and Pistols for
horces [cavalry] in one ship which is to be ye first, and in ye
second six thousand Guns without Baionets but sufficient Amunition
and Six thouzand Brode sords; as Mr. Goring has my further Directions
to you on them Affaires Leaves me nothing farther to add at present.'


On June 11, Charles remonstrated with Madame de Talmond: if she is
tired of him, he will go to 'le Lorain.' 'Enfin, si vous voulez ma
vie, il faut changer de tout.' On June 27, Newton repeated his
expressions of suspicion about Cluny, and spoke of 'disputes and
broils' among the Scotch as to the seizure of the Loch Arkaig money.

On July 2, Charles, in cypher, asked James for a renewal of his
commission as Regent. Goring, or Newton, was apparently sent at
least as far as Avignon with this despatch. He travelled as Monsieur
Fritz, a German, with complicated precautions of secrecy. James sent
the warrant to be Regent on parchment--it is in the Queen's Library--
but he added that Charles was 'a continual heartbreak,' and warned